Kinetics (Chemistry)

Recall cards on chemical kinetics: reaction rates (average, instantaneous, and initial rates, the sign convention, rates from the tangent to a concentration-versus-time curve, and stoichiometric rate relations); the factors that affect rates (chemical nature, physical state and surface area, temperature, concentration, and catalysts); rate laws (the rate constant, reaction order, the method of initial rates, and the units of k); integrated rate laws (the first-, second-, and zero-order equations, their linear plots, and their half-lives); collision theory (activation energy, the activated complex, and the Arrhenius equation with its linear form and plot); reaction mechanisms (elementary reactions, intermediates, molecularity, and the rate-determining step); and catalysis (lower-activation-energy pathways, homogeneous versus heterogeneous catalysts, and enzymes).